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A programme is currently under way to improve the quality of life of plantation workers and their families. Better housing, health care, child development and social welfare is the focus of the Plantation Human Development Trust (PHDT), which is geared to finding solutions to problems relating to the living and working environment of 200,000 plantation worker families, living in 400 estates managed by 24 plantation companies and covers a population of one million.

For instance, with the support of plantation companies and the government, the PHDT has now taken up the challenge of transforming the once deplorable housing conditions of plantation workers. The programmes include maternal care, immunization, child growth and development, nutrition, control of acute respiratory infections, control of diarrhoeal diseases, cancer programmes, HIV/AIDS prevention, reproductive health, and TB control.

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